Nolveiro Vera Ordonez was hauled into court on theft charges and pleaded to be sent to jail while ICE agents waited outside ...

ICE kept out of Rikers Island jail for now, judge rules. Under a court ruling, New York City is prohibited from furthering any agreement to let Immigration and Customs Enforcement back onto ...

ICE wants an office inside NYC’s notorious Rikers Island jail. A judge might end those hopes - New York City Mayor Eric Adams crafted a ‘corrupt bargain’ with Trump to let federal agents ...

The New York City Council filed a lawsuit Tuesday trying to stop the Adams administration's move allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to operate on Rikers Island.

ICE agents once had a presence at the Rikers Island facility, which is on a hard-to-reach island in the East River. But they were effectively banned from operating there in 2014 under New York ...

Mayor Eric Adams is preparing to return the exiled U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex, he said in a statement Thursday, hours after ...

Judge Blocks ICE From Rikers Island Amid City Challenge. Adams has said the presence of ICE and other federal agencies within the jail complex will allow them to assist in gang and drug-related ...

Mayor Eric Adams said Thursday he is preparing an executive order to allow U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement officers to operate on Rikers Island. Adams announced the news in a statement ...

“Granting ICE access to Rikers Island, a facility where New Yorkers — including noncitizens entitled to a fair trial and the presumption of innocence — are detained, ...

ICE used to have a presence on Rikers to facilitate the transfer of immigrants who were in the U.S. illegally into federal custody for deportation. But the city's 2014 sanctuary law effectively ...

A lawsuit filed by the City Council alleges that the executive order issued by Mayor Eric Adams' administration allowing ICE agents to reestablish a presence on Rikers Island is the product of a ...